![]() ![]() ![]() Tupac was known for melodrama, and the two-CD collection is evenly weighted with emotive, cautionary tales like "Letter 2 My Unborn" and "Happy Home." But as a role model, Tupac is no less confusing: "I do shows, make a lot of dough, murder my foes / But I'd give it all up, if it'd help you grow." His latest such release, "Until the End of Time" (Interscope), is a redundant collection of "thug life" bravado and unfocused anger from a man who clearly had not yet come to grips with the code "live by the sword, die by the sword." Songs like "When Thugz Cry" have Tupac praying to God for an end to his misery and, in the same verse, leaving his enemies "drowning in their own blood." ![]() Some of the conjecture stems from the spooky nature of the recorded material he left behind: Tupac was so obsessed with death that, to anyone with a healthy imagination, his lyrics could easily seem like part of an elaborate staging or the result of clairvoyance.īut Tupac's posthumously issued recordings indicate that he couldn't see beyond the moment, much less to the next life. ![]() As unlikely as that might be, enough unsolved mysteries clog Web sites like to give anyone second thoughts. Ever since Tupac Shakur's murder in 1996, the mythology around him has grown to the point that some people think the rapper faked his own death and is hiding out. ![]()
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